Not exactly. DS << regular SWE < applied scientist = MLE = distributed system SWE = research scientist < hot shot world class top PhD research scientist. Source: I have been MLE and AS and know many RS.
MLE is basically SDE + ML. So if anything it's probably slightly better than SDE in terms of prestige I guess. Plus more career opportunities since you can go either route DS or SDE
So as AS.
I am a MLE working with AS. AS does get paid more (almost a full band, AS2 is almost sde3 comp. Same for AS managers). MLE is not a job family (it’s SDE). The only way I see that we could ‘get paid more than regular SDEs’ is that you can either transition to AS (not that difficult) or promotion/tt bonus might be slightly easier to get as ML teams are sometimes put in a pedestal.
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Fluff DS (analytics) << applied scientist = MLE = regular SDE < research scientist
This is wrong. I work on a team with AS. aS is definitely higher paid than SDEs. rS is same or lower than SDE. I heard they are just data scientist
By SDE I meant engineers doing backend, distributed systems etc otherwise we’re comparing apples to oranges